Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Foreshortening Lesson on the Patio

Technically, it’s a deck, not a patio, because it’s slightly
elevated from the ground. But for the sake of this week’s Urban Sketchers Flickr group theme, “Patios,” I decided it was
close enough. Here’s a sketch of Greg trying to get a tan. I stood a few steps
down on the stairway that leads to our backyard to sketch this, which gave me
one of the strangest, most foreshortened life drawing views I’ve ever
attempted. (He complained that one foot is larger than the other. Baby, you
have no idea how much worse it could have been.)